Video: Elderberry Propagation with Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski

Submitted by Michael Pilarski on June 16, 2017 - 9:34am

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Permaculturist Michael Pilarski shares how to propagate Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) with branch cuttings. Cuttings about 20" long are taken in late winter and treated with a rooting hormone. Cutting in the video has been in the pot rooting for about two months. Filmed June 2017 at his agroforestry planting in Port Townsend, WA.

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MICHAEL “SKEETER” PILARSKI is a life-long student of plants and earth repair. His farming career started in 2nd grade and his organic farming career began in 1972 at age 25. Michael founded Friends of the Trees Society in 1978 and took his first permaculture design course in 1982. Since 1988 he has taught 36 permaculture design courses in the US and abroad. His specialties include earth repair, agriculture, seed collecting, nursery sales, tree planting, fruit picking, permaculture, agroforestry, forestry, ethnobotany, medicinal herb growing, hoeing and wildcrafting. He has hands-on experience with over 1000 species of plants. He is a prolific gathering organizer and likes group singing.